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by Anthony Tomcykoski (ions)
Since the invention of the hypodermic syringe by Alexander Wood and Charles Gabriel Pravaz in 1853, the proper use of needles has been under scrutiny. Syringes played a crucial role in the American Civil War in the 1860s, where a wounded soldier who lost a limb would be treated with an intravenous injection of morphine. And in the present, the use of syringes is widely accepted as a routine procedure to administer vaccines, antipsychotics, and illegal drugs alike. The argument I’m making here is that for many medications, a hollowpoint needle (IV or IM) should be reserved for emergencies, rather than being the default route of administration.
Based on my personal experience, I find insurance companies, big pharma, and doctors all work together to profit off the suffering of patients undergoing antipsychotic treatment. And it’s a vicious cycle that further perpetuates psychiatric disorders with no end in sight. When you’re institutionalized and deemed crazy by the prison doctors, they can panel to force you to take pills. When you don’t, they will bring out the needle. And this is where it should be noted that the needle is being used as a weapon in every sense of the word, to ultimately practice mind control on many people who don’t need it.
So what alternatives are there? Well, the better medicines are psychedelics and related psychoactives, where in some cases it may be possible to take a couple of doses and feel better for life. However, they are widely illegal (in most of the US, for example) and unavailable to most people globally. The law would have to change for better access to these medicines, and the whole so-called discipline of psychiatry would have to change what they’re teaching. Because what has been taught since Rockefeller funded oil-based medicine in the 1920s is the use of petrochemicals and abandoning the use of holistic treatments such as cannabis. By the 1930s, all the medicine taught in medical colleges involved the use of petrochemicals, and holistic medicine was deemed quackery. This change was largely fueled by the greed of the oil tycoon Rockefeller, who owned 3% of all of America’s wealth at the time, and tried to stretch his oil profits to pharmaceuticals.
Antipsychotics and atypical antipsychotics such as Haldol, Risperdal, and Invega are widely distributed to patients who are admitted into a psychiatric hospital either voluntarily or involuntarily. The cost of these medicines is substantial. Aetna sends me a monthly statement of how much a shot of Invega costs and it’s roughly $3500 a month that goes not to me, but to doctors, clinics, and big pharma on behalf of insurance profiting. They know they do not need you to pay for it, and they will get their dollars for it anyway. It’s a slap in the face seeing that statement because it would be enough for me to live on for a month. And as I mentioned, when you do not take your pills, out comes the needle to make you stable. These drugs ruin lives, as you can see in the ‘Coming off Invega/Xeplion (paliperidone) injections’ thread on the Bluelight forum. Many patients wonder if they will ever recover. And I chime in from time to time to state that cannabis gave me my life back.
As far as conspiracies go, I think that the medical industrial complex is hellbent on trying to make the general public as dumb as possible, which antipsychotics do. The establishment does not want you to think or question their authority; instead they want you to remain blindly obedient and compliant. I think we have to return to medicines that allow us to heal properly, one being MDMA. To just ignore the healing properties of this medicine and not use it in practice is simply childish. In my opinion, there are no benefits to Invega Sustenna injections, only side effects. It’s like operating at 20%, and trying to function in society becomes a burden. It’s black and white that you do not have to take medicines that a doctor prescribes. However in practice, that is not the case. To sum up, if you can take a medicine voluntarily, you’re better off.
Works Cited
Mary Bellis, “Who Invented the Syringe Needle?,” ThoughtCo, March 3, 2019, https://www.thoughtco.com/who-invented-the-hypodermic-needle-4075653.
Erin L. George, “Long-Term Effects of Antipsychotics,” MentalHealth.com, October 13, 2023,https://www.mentalhealth.com/library/long-term-effects-of-antipsychotics.
Mike Magee, “A Brief History of American Pharma: From Snake Oil to Big Money,” Literary Hub, September 5, 2019, https://lithub.com/a-brief-history-of-american-pharma-from-snake-oil-to-big-money/.
Joana Orta, Catherine Barton, Patricia Ilao, Dorie E Apollonio, “A review of policies on the involuntary use of psychotropic medications among persons experiencing incarceration in the United States,” Health Justice, February 18, 2023, https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9938563/.
Anthony Tomcykoski (ions) is the Director of the ions institute (not to be confused with the Institute of Noetic Sciences). He has a BS in Chemistry (2006) from Commonwealth University – Mansfield, and completed a Ph.D. dissertation in inorganic chemistry at Binghamton University, with a focus on ruthenium (II) hemilabile coordination compounds. He’s currently living in Pennsylvania. In his free time he invests in the markets.
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